Weaver - Starfire Roamer

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Hybrid damageMobility and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on October 25, 2023 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

A Celestial Weaver build for WvW roaming with excellent condition pressure and sustain but somewhat limited mobility.


Skill Bar

Sword/Focus
Utility


Skill Variants

Utility

  • over - this is a choice between a stronger defensive skill on a longer CD (Armor) and more frequent stun break access but on a weaker skill (Signet).


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Specializations

Variants

  • is also a viable option in case you'd need more condition removal.


Equipment

Head
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Feet
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Sword
Celestial
Focus
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic


Equipment Variants

Sigils

  • - great option if you're having trouble dealing with conditions.
  • - a great boost to sustain in general and dodge rolling has synergy with several traits as well.


Relics

  • - better cleansing.


Runes

  • - bit more defensive option with similar stats. It's also cheap and doesn't require crafting.


Consumables

Food

  • - food equivalent of Celestial and excellent passive damage mitigation, fits perfectly.
  • - non-Ascended Celestial food option.
  • - one of the most popular consumables amongst roamers, provides excellent sustain and even a bit of damage.
    • Budget version:


Utility


Usage

Elite specialization basics

  • Weaver allows the Elementalist to attune to 2 elements at the same time, and skills 1-5 are decided based on both. Let's call them primary and secondary attunements.
  • If you swap to then fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 will be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to for example then water is now your primary attunement and fire's moved to secondary - now skills 1-2 are water and 4-5 are fire. Skill 3 is a dual skill influenced by both active attunements fire + water for example is .
  • The order of the attunements doesn't matter here, water primary with fire secondary has the same dual attack as fire primary and water secondary. Attuning to the same element twice has its own dual skill.


General

  • should seldom be touched, as the passive is extremely valuable. Note that several trait procs also count as skill activations and will benefit from the passive of this signet.
    • Unless you either have a high amount of Confusion Confusion on you, or you're already at maximum health, you should always be casting something (autoattacks will do too). This is to get the most out of this signet's passive.
  • Cycle Fire Air Fire Air to maintain Swiftness Swiftness while roaming.
  • can be cancelled by stowing your weapon in rare cases when the full evasion isn't needed (let's say you have to cleave a downed target and must keep the pressure up, but had to break stun). Another application includes pressuring targets through and whilst evading incoming attacks.
  • Dual attuning (having the same primary and secondary element) in general isn't recommended, but there are a few niche uses for it. One example would be attuning to Fire twice in order to squeeze more condition cleansing out of it in a limited time frame.
  • Might Might stacking happens passively through . It's yet another reason for spamming autoattacks as much as possible when in combat (and attuned to Fire).


Damage

  • This build is all about stacking Burning Burning.
  • can instantly add burst to any attack skill you're using:
    • When it comes to offense, you can't go wrong with activating them on - fire has the highest raw damage output.
    • is also a good choice for both because of the Vulnerability Vulnerability stacking, but this condition's effectivenes severely depends on how pressured your target is - especially when it comes to the glyph which only stacks one condition type at a time. If the target doesn't have any damaging conditions and isn't being focused by your team, Vulnerability doesn't do much.
    • Note: all 5 charges of the glyph go off based on the attunement you were in the moment this skill was used, swapping attunements doesn't change anything.
  • As for weapon skills, your heavy hitters are , , and . The latter two also pulse damage each second for a period of time, making them synergize well with .
  • doesn't do much in duels because it's so easy to avoid just by not stepping on it, but it's a rather decent skill for downed cleave if dropped directly below the target.


Burst combo examples

primary, secondary
  1. Swap to


primary, secondary
  1. Swap to


Sustain and how to dealing with conditions

  • The trait provides a steady stream of cleansing:
    • Swapping to applies , cleansing one condition. Swapping to another attunement from fire gives you access to which cleanses another 2 conditions by detonating the aura.
    • can be combo'd by using a leap finisher such as or in a .
  • When auras no longer suffice is what you should use. This is the best anti-condition skill in the build, instantly removing 3 conditions upon being used.
  • The trait grants a steady stream of barriers. Dodging on Water and Earth attunements has even more defensive benefits thanks to - the first dodge after attuning to Water acts as an AoE heal / cleanse while the first dodge on Earth is a blast finisher which can be combo'd into the field left behind by .
  • Most of the sustain comes from combining with :
    • The order doesn't always matter. Going from Earth to Water lets you blast immediately with for extra healing whilst cleansing conditions and reflecting projectiles. Going from Water to Earth allows for blasting Riptide's water field through an empowered dodge + .
    • Skill #2 of both attunements has an evade frame in case you'd want to avoid incoming damage.
    • Attuning to Earth serves as an instant source of AoE Protection Protection application which is quite handy especially if you're CC'd and can't cast anything else.
  • Earth / Fire is also an alright combination because of the cleansing from the auras and the barrier from .
  • is the best defensive skill in the build, making you immortal for its duration (except for fall damage).


Basic healing combo

  1. Dodge in to proc the relevant effect of .
  2. Use .
  3. Swap to for or use if you were in Earth prior to switching to Water. Use them in the field created by Riptide. You could also go Earth Water Earth and do both.
  4. Swap to for the + combo.
  5. for the barrier.
  6. Optional: when you swap out of Fire, use if cleansing is needed.


Related Builds

Fire Weaver (sPvP) - Conquest PvP version.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 4 votes.
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5 stars
Leif gave this build 5 stars • February 2024
This build has style and super fun to play, can demolish many classes in duels. You will struggle to finish off willbenders and stealth thieves who can easily kite and outdistance you once you ramp up the pressure.
5 stars
Hanz gave this build 5 stars • August 2022
Weaver makes full use of the OP Celestial stats, it's a very potent duelist even in the EoD era. Strong damage and sustain.
4 stars
Tyroxin gave this build 4 stars • March 2020
The loss of stability and cooldown increase on Riptide did hurt this build, but Weaver is still very durable and the burst can still be deadly. Nov 19 - Combine Elementalists usually vast toolset for survival with the ability to burst heavy rather quickly - and this is one possible result. Once you get used to some rotations Hybrid Weaver continues to be a highly versatile build with a lot offensive power. It can't do everything, you can in principle counter it and it struggles to get away from challenges that proved temporarily unsolvable, but the rest is there.
5 stars
N00TURNO gave this build 5 stars • January 2020
Great build! This build is strong in 1vX against most of the other builds/professions, but it struggles killing bunkers and healers. Focus makes it very easy to stay alive even when you are outnumbered and also adds some more pressure to your fights, but it lacks in mobility for chasing down some of your enemies, which is frustrating sometimes. I've been playing it for 6 weeks in WvW and I'm very satisfied with it. In my opinion, this is the BEST elementalist build among the roaming builds of this site.

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